{"id":32,"date":"2006-02-05T02:14:09","date_gmt":"2006-02-05T00:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/32"},"modified":"2006-02-06T21:58:52","modified_gmt":"2006-02-06T19:58:52","slug":"ntfs-links-on-the-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/32","title":{"rendered":"NTFS Links on the go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by today&#8217;s conversation with <a href=\"http:\/\/ilyabirman.ru\/\">Ilya<\/a>, a new bunch of features is coming as a part of NTFS Links update. It will hook into shell&#8217;s copy\/move\/rename\/delete operations suggesting useful options. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Things that make sense:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strike>Directories, which are not reparse points (ie. soft links)<\/strike><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><strike>Move &#8211; nothing we can help with<\/strike><\/li>\n<li><strike><em>Copy &#8211; whenever possible suggest soft link creation \/\/ Implemented<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strike><\/li>\n<li><strike>Delete &#8211; nothing we can help with<\/strike><\/li>\n<li><strike>Rename &#8211; nothing we can help with<\/strike><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><strike>Directories, which are reparse points<\/strike><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><strike>Move &#8211; optional informational warning on moving a link \/\/ Implemented<br \/>\n<\/strike><\/li>\n<li><strike>Copy &#8211; warn on copying a link, suggest options to (a) create another soft link to the directory being copied and (b) create another soft link to the target directory of the original soft link \/\/ Implemented<\/strike><\/li>\n<li><strike><em>Delete &#8211; informational warning on deleting a link, an option to delete target as well (makes little sense though) \/\/ Implemented without the mentioned option<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strike><\/li>\n<li><strike>Rename &#8211; nothing we can help with<br \/>\n<\/strike><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Files<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><strike>Move<\/strike><strike> &#8211; nothing we can help with<\/strike><\/li>\n<li>Copy &#8211; option to create a hard link instead of copying, by default attempt to create a hard link and if failed notify user and allow standard operation<\/li>\n<li><strike>Delete &#8211; nothing we can help with<\/strike><\/li>\n<li><strike>Rename &#8211; nothing we can help with<\/strike><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All the mentioned additional features make also sense being exposed as additional context menu entries (probably cascaded or optionally cascaded since there might be rather many of them).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by today&#8217;s conversation with Ilya, a new bunch of features is coming as a part of NTFS Links update. It will hook into shell&#8217;s copy\/move\/rename\/delete operations suggesting useful options. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ntfs-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}